When Kentucky expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, 400,000 more citizens were eligible for healthcare coverage. But Gov.-elect Bevin says he wants to transition to a Medicaid compromise system in which beneficiaries have to pay for a higher share of their costs.
Gov. Beshear believes the program should stay as it is. “Contrary to what people without the facts say, we can afford it,” he said Nov. 13.
Gov.-elect Bevin has also stated plans to dismantle Kynect, Kentucky’s state-run marketplace, and hand the reins to the federal government.
Gov. Beshear disagrees. “It’s inconceivable to me why — just to make a partisan political statement — Kentucky would want to go backward and become the first state to decommission a successful exchange,” he said.
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